R. Lee Ermey Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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Some of the people at Ripple I think are truly the smartest people I've ever worked with in my career, which makes it a lot of fun to go to work every day.
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I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.
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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
